Going into my freshman year, I was unaware of such a day until a Friday rolled around. It was roughly 12:10 p.m. when I arrived at Franklin Dining Common. Unlike the other days of the first week, this day possessed an eery calm. Little did I expect what was about to happen next. I wait for a friend for roughly minutes and within those minutes, it was like being a scary movie with bionic zombies racing to a feast. Shocked, I asked a passerby heading for the line to get in what was going and she responded in awe of my naive question, “FINGER FOOD FRIDAAAYYYYY!!! Duuhh.”
Fridays may have been pizza day in elementary school but fridays at UMass are reserved for a whole realm of delicacies... finger foods. There is nothing more that gets the UMass student population more excited for the end of every week (aside from no classes) than the simple pleasures of stringy mozzarella sticks and saucy chicken wings. Students can spend hours snacking on plates and plates of unlimited sticks and wings to the point of getting a “food baby” ( When one must stick his or her stomach out after excessive consumption of food because it hurts... really bad... making him or her appear to be pregnant).
The finger foods are so popular that students living off campus without meal plans nearly beg their on- campus friends for a guest swipe to pass through the gates of deliciousness (one perk of living in a dorm). Early afternoons on these days are the busiest you will ever see in a UMass dining common and they rarely run out of food! Taco Tuesdays have nothing on Finger Food Fridays.
Who knew? Is it only at Franklin? I like the comparison to a zombie movie.
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